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Terrorism / US / Antisemitism / News Briefs / Islamists / ISIS

US Plays Down Oklahoma Beheading as Muslim Terror

By Tzvi Ben-Gedalyahu

The “odd” man who beheaded a woman prayed at a local anti-Israel mosque.

Israel / US / Antisemitism / News Briefs / Business and Economy

Port of Oakland Under Siege Again by BDS

By Jewish Press News Desk

The Port of Oakland is again under economic attack by BDS. But are Union leaders using BDS as contract negotiating fools?

Holidays / News Briefs / Holidays & Observances

Fast of Gedaliah

By Jewish Press News Desk

On Sunday, Jews will be refraining from food and drink from dawn until sunset to commemorate the Fast of Gedaliah. Following Nebuchadnetzar’s destruction of the First Temple and exile of most of the Jews, the Babylonians appointed Gedaliah ben Achikaam as governor of Judea. Under Gedaliah’s leadership, Judea and the survivors began to recover. On […]

US / News Briefs / Assimilation

Chelsea Clinton Gives Birth to (Non-Jewish) Baby Girl

By Jewish Press News Desk

Chelsea Clinton gave birth on Friday night to a baby girl.

Israel / News Briefs / Holidays & Observances

Breslov Hassidim to Spend Rosh Hashana in Israel

By Jewish Press News Desk

Technical difficulties canceled the flight, and everyone was sent home...

Antisemitism / News Briefs / Egypt

Only 12 Jews Left in Egypt, Community Leader Says

By JTA

The “second Exodus” from Egypt is almost complete.

Terrorism / NY / Antisemitism / News Briefs / Arts and Entertainment

New York City Site of Huge Rally Against Met's Klinghoffer Opera

By Lori Lowenthal Marcus

Thousands of people protested outside of the Metropolitan Opera for staging an anti-Semitic opera.

Government / News Briefs / Holidays & Observances

Rosh HaShana Message from PM Binyamin Netanyahu

By Jewish Press Staff

PM Netanyahu has sent out his Rosh HaShana greeting to Jews around the world.

UK / Antisemitism / News Briefs / Europe / Boycott / BDS

Five Anti-Zionist Doctors ‘Hijack’ Medical Journal to Dump on Israel

By Tzvi Ben-Gedalyahu

“How can you separate politics and health? The two go hand-in-hand.” – editor of Lancet medical journal.

US / News Briefs / Holidays & Observances / Judaism

Guinness Record for Shofar Blowing Broken in NJ

By JTA

For the record, Jewish law allows you only to hear on shofar at a time on Rosh HaShanah.

Antisemitism / News Briefs / Turkey

Wow! Turkey’s Erdogan to Meet Jewish, Armenian Leaders in NY!

By Rachel Levy

Turkey's President Erdogan is meeting with Jewish and Armenian leaders in New York -- but so what?

Politics / Antisemitism / News Briefs / Palestinian Authority / Holidays & Observances / Islamists / Religion

Arab Media Outlet Struggles w/ Cave of Patriarchs Closure to Muslims on Rosh Hashana

By Jewish Press Staff

An Arab media outlet appears to be having issues with the closure of the Cave of the Patriarchs to Muslims over Rosh Hashana.

News Briefs / Assimilation

One-Quarter of European Jews Fear Wearing Jewish Symbols in Public

By Lori Lowenthal Marcus

Only 30 % of European Jews will attend high holiday services; 1/4 fear wearing Jewish symbols.

Jewish / News Briefs / Aliyah / Geulah

Israel’s Population Nears 9 Million

By Tzvi Ben-Gedalyahu

Israel welcomed 24,801 new immigrants this past year. Another 6-8 million did not make it - yet.

News Briefs / Holidays & Observances

Selichot

By Jewish Press News Desk

Ashkenazi Jews begin saying Selichot tonight, the week of Rosh Hashana.

US / Politics / Antisemitism / News Briefs / Arts and Entertainment / Islamists / Judaism

For Grass Roots Klinghoffer Protest 9/22, Jewish Establishment MIA

By Lori Lowenthal Marcus

This Monday, starting at 4:30 p.m. ET, a rally is taking place on the steps of Lincoln Center. The rally is intended to give a voice and add faces to the ongoing furor over the Metropolitan Opera staging a wildly anti-Semitic opera, "The Death of Klinghoffer." The opera was first staged in 1991, and is […]

Israel / Jewish / News Briefs

World’s Oldest Jewish Prayer Book Makes Its Way Home

By Anav Silverman, Tazpit News Agency

The world’s oldest known Jewish prayer book, or siddur, was displayed for the first time to the general public at the Bible Lands Museum.

US / Police and Crime / News Briefs / Judaism

Death Row Inmate: ‘Kosher-like’ is Not Kosher’

By Rachel Levy

A prison inmate on death row in Connecticut is demanding kosher food, though he's not really Jewish.

UK / Antisemitism / News Briefs

Anti-Semitic Store Guard Sacked by British Sporting Goods Store

By Lori Lowenthal Marcus

British sports store fired security guard who barred Jewish kids from entering the store.

NY / Police and Crime / Antisemitism / News Briefs

NYC Police Looking into Swastika Fliers in Brooklyn’s Williamsburg

By JTA

New York City police are investigating the distribution of fliers marked with swastikas in the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn.

News Briefs / Holidays & Observances / #EyalGiladNaftali

Mother of Naftali Frenkel With Rosh HaShana Request for Jewish Unity

By Lori Lowenthal Marcus

Naftali Frenkel's mother's message for Rosh HaShana is for the Jewish people to remain united, as one family.

Global / Antisemitism / News Briefs

Arson Attack on Brussels Synagogue

By Tzvi Ben-Gedalyahu

Arsonists set fire to a Brussels synagogue on Tuesday, that was previously firebombed in 2010, but Jewish officials are not ready to declare the incident as anti-Semitic. The wife and two children of the synagogue’s caretaker, who was not present at the time of the arson, suffered slight smoke inhalation after the fire broke out […]

Israel / Jewish / US / News Briefs

US Jews ‘Bought Israel’ During War

By Kosher Today

If you don’t live in Israel, at least ‘Buy Israel.”

Antisemitism / Germany / Holocaust

Ex-Auschwitz Guard Charged with 300,000 Counts of Accessory to Murder

By Tzvi Ben-Gedalyahu

Oskar Groening’s defense is that he only was cog in the Nazi death machine.

UK / Antisemitism / News Briefs / Europe

British Store Guard Tells Children ‘No Jews Allowed’

By JTA

This happened in Britain in 2014, not in Germany in 1939.

Politics / Eye on "Palestine" / Antisemitism / News Briefs / Arts and Entertainment / Islamists

Klinghoffer: Pretending Art Means Never Having to Say You're Sorry

By Lori Lowenthal Marcus

The Met's upcoming opera trivializes the murder of Jews, pretends Jews have no connection to Israel, and portrays terrorists as victims.

US / Police and Crime / Antisemitism / News Briefs / Holocaust / Judaism

Swastikas Again in Series of Philadelphia Attacks of Anti-Semitism

By Lori Lowenthal Marcus

Since March, there have been repeated acts of anti-Semitic vandalism against Philly's Jewish sites and institutions.

Antisemitism / News Briefs / France / Aliyah / Geulah

Rifle-Wielding Man Threatens Murder outside French Jewish School

By Tzvi Ben-Gedalyahu

“I will kill all of you,” said the drunken gunman, annoyed at the nerve of a truck blocking traffic.

Jewish / News Briefs / Product Promotion

Turning Death Into Life - an Answer to Hamas

By Shmuel Sackett

In the areas where over 1,000 rockets and missiles fell, Israeli farmers will plant 100,000 new fruit trees!

Antisemitism / News Briefs / Turkey / Media

Pro-Erdogan Columnist Publishes Rant Against Turkish Jews

By Rachel Levy

A conservative columnist known for his anti-Israel views has again struck out against the Jews in Turkey.

NY / Antisemitism / News Briefs / On Campus / Education

CUNY BDS Vote Shelved After Heated Debate - #BDSFail

By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)

Despite the vote's difficult timing for observant Jews, a number of pro-Israel groups also turned out to support CUNY students and faculty who opposed the resolution.

Haredim & Hassidim / News Briefs / Religion

Lev Tahor Sect Trafficked In Human Cargo, Documents Show

By JTA

Search warrants unsealed in Quebec allege that the Haredi Lev Tahor sect trafficked in human cargo and committed other abuses. The documents also reveal that Interpol and Israel helped build the criminal case against the group before its 250 members fled to Guatemala in March with leader Rabbi Shlomo Helbrans. The list of charges in […]

Antisemitism / News Briefs / Florida

Anti-Semitites Vandalize Miami Synagogues

By Jewish Press Staff

Vandals attacked two synagogues and a supermarket this week. One person has been arrested.

Antisemitism / News Briefs / On Campus / Education

Ohio U. Students Arrested in Protest of ‘Blood Bucket’ Video

By JTA

Free speech on on the Ohio U. campus is restricted to anti-Zionists.

Jewish

Amid Declining Jewish Numbers In Congress, Rising Concerns Over Communal Influence

By Ron Kampeas

“The Jewish community is going to have to work harder,” said one veteran official who has worked both as a professional in the Jewish community and a staffer for a Jewish lawmaker.

Israel / Antisemitism / News Briefs / United Nations (UN)

Human Rights Expert: UN Source of Legal Pogrom (And More) to Destroy Israel

By Lori Lowenthal Marcus

Bayefsky's address on the UN as source and legitimizer of efforts to destroy Israel should be required viewing.

Antisemitism / News Briefs / Europe

Greek Island Police Chief Photographed Giving Nazi Salute

By JTA

Greek police officers are among those who support the neo-Nazi Golden Dawn party.

News Briefs / Arts and Entertainment / Judaism

Gwyneth Paltrow ‘Quietly’ Converting to Judaism

By Tzvi Ben-Gedalyahu

If Paltrow does not want the great rabbis in her ancestry to roll over in their graves, she would be wise to try a real Jewish conversion.

Terrorism / Syria / Antisemitism / News Briefs / France / ISIS

ISIS Terrorist Identified as Murderer in Brussels Jewish Museum Attack

By Tzvi Ben-Gedalyahu

The shooter "probably acted alone” – Belgium deputy prosecutor Ine Van Wymersch after the murderous attack in June 2013.

Jewish / News Briefs / Obituaries

Joan Rivers Dies at Age 81

By Jewish Press News Desk

The outspoken Jewish comedienne Joan Rivers passed away on Thursday.

Jewish / News Briefs / Settlements

The First Brit Milah at Oz veGaon

By Nadia Matar

The baby, who became part of the renewed history of Gush Etzion, was named Oz Michael.

Terrorism / Israel / US / Antisemitism / News Briefs / Media / ISIS

Beheaded Journalist Steve Sotloff Was American Oleh to Israel

By JTA

Sotloff, who grew up in Miami, made aliyah in 2005 and studied foreign relations at the Interdisciplinary Center in Herzliya.

Terrorism / Jewish / News Briefs / Islamists / ISIS

Beheaded Journalist Hid His Judaism from ISIS Captors

By Tzvi Ben-Gedalyahu

Journalist Steven Sotloff, beheaded by the ISIS, secretly practiced his Judaism but hid it from his captors, according to a fellow kidnap victim who was among those freed. The ISIS posted a video Tuesday showing the execution of Sotloff, less than two weeks after it distributed a similar video of the beheading of journalist James […]

Jewish / UK / News Briefs / Europe

Self-Acclaimed Jew Pleads ‘Not Guilty’ to Assaulting MP George Galloway

By Tzvi Ben-Gedalyahu

The prosecutor says Masterson told police, "I didn't want him to think I'm scared.”

Jewish / Politics / News Briefs

Eric Cantor Joins Wall Street Investment Bank

By JTA

Cantor can thank his defeat to a Tea Party candidate for leading him to more lucrative and stable career.

Israel / Jewish / News Briefs / Arts and Entertainment / Religion

The Real and Radical Legacy of Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach

By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)

“He was part hippie, part yippie, part beatnik, and part New Age,” – Elli Wohlgelernter in a Jerusalem Post eulogy in 1994.

Israel / Jewish / Politics / News Briefs

NIF Slams Bennett for Honoring the Dead

By Meir Halevi Siegel

Jewish Home leader blocks exhibition of dead bodies citing Jewish tradition to honor the dead; NIF objects.

Haredim & Hassidim / News Briefs

Tensions with Catholics Force Lev Tahor Out of Guatemala Village

By JTA

Mixing the Haredi Lev Tahor cult with a bunch of fiercely religious Roman Catholics is a recipe for dynamite.

UK / Antisemitism / News Briefs

British Jews To March Against Anti-Semitism

By Meir Halevi Siegel

With Judeophobic attacks spiking around United Kingdom, local Jews say not enough done to enforce hate crime laws

Syria / Antisemitism / News Briefs / France / Islamists / ISIS

Teen Girls Planned to Bomb French Synagogue

By Tzvi Ben-Gedalyahu

The jihad network has snared teenagers in its web. One out of every six Frenchmen supports the ISIS.

Israel / US / Gaza / Hamas / Antisemitism / On Campus / Education

Yale Chaplain Blames Anti-Semitism on Israel

By JTA

If Israel would just not exists, and if Jews would stop being Jewish, there would be no anti-Semitism in the world.

Jewish / News Briefs / Arts and Entertainment

Joan Rivers in Medically-Induced Coma

By Tzvi Ben-Gedalyahu

Doctors are hopeful but worried. Her daughter Melissa is an “emotional wreck.”

UK / Antisemitism / News Briefs / Europe / Holocaust

British Man Beats Up Anti-Semite George Galloway

By Tzvi Ben-Gedalyahu

We wish him a speedy recovery and a lifetime of laryngitis.

Israel / Jewish / US / News Briefs / Arts and Entertainment

Joan Rivers in Critical Condition

By Tzvi Ben-Gedalyahu

We wish a speedy recovery to Joan Rivers, the straight-shooting Jewish comedienne whose exact analysis of the war was, “Hamas started it.”

Israel / Haredim & Hassidim / US / News Briefs

Funeral Begins from Lakewood Yeshiva Student Aaron Sofer

By Tzvi Ben-Gedalyahu

Sofer, who may have died from dehydration after falling in a ravine while hiking, is being buried in Beit Shemesh.

Antisemitism / News Briefs / Boycott / BDS / Settlements

Dutch Pension Fund Rejects BDS

By Tzvi Ben-Gedalyahu

The Boycott Israel movement, so far, is more bark than bite.

Israel / Haredim & Hassidim / US / News Briefs

No News Is Bad News in Search for Yeshiva Student Aaron Sofer

By Tzvi Ben-Gedalyahu

The case of missing U.S. yeshiva student Aaron Sofer, studying in Israel, remains unsolved after six days.

NY / Antisemitism / News Briefs

Anti-Semitic Thugs Attacks Jewish Couple in New York City

By Tzvi Ben-Gedalyahu

Never forget that anti-Semitism cannot happen in the largely Jewish-populated Upper East Side of New York, right? Never forget.

Terrorism / Israel / Haredim & Hassidim / News Briefs

Fears Grow for Fate of Missing Yeshiva Student Aaron Sofer (Video)

By Jewish Press Staff

Israeli searchers for missing Lakewood, New Jersey yeshiva student Aaron Sofer have found some of his personal belongs near a trail, his last known location, but fears are growing that the 23-year-old youth has been kidnapped and/or murdered. Police and a dog unit have tracked the Jerusalem Forest area where he was last seen on […]

Antisemitism / News Briefs / Europe / Islamists

Euro Jews: ISIS 'Immense Threat' to European Jews

By Meir Halevi Siegel

European Jewish Congress says local boys who go off to fight with Islamic State could come home, radicalize local youth.

Antisemitism / News Briefs / Israel At War: Operation Protective Edge

Anti-Semitism Update: August 25

By Meir Halevi Siegel

Woman attacked in Brussels, rabbi attacked in Australia, Colombian paper says 'occupation' of Palestine started with conquest of biblical Joshua.

Jewish / US / News Briefs

California Earthquake Wreaks Havoc at Chabad House

By Jewish Press Staff

Chabad rabbis say middle-of-the-night jolt makes him understand better what Israelis are going through in the war.

US / Antisemitism / News Briefs

Congresswoman Hahn on #BlocktheBoat and ILWU Local 10

By Jewish Press News Desk

The congresswoman recognized the damage to the local economy that these BDS protesters can cause.

News Briefs / Turkey / Judaism

Alleged Killers Confess to Murdering Turkish Jewish Couple

By Jewish Press Staff

An Uzbek couple has reportedly confessed under interrogation to the murders of a Turkish Jewish couple in Istanbul.

UK / Antisemitism / News Briefs / Europe / Aliyah / Geulah

British Police Arrest Jew for Fighting PA Flag Wavers at Kosher Deli

By Tzvi Ben-Gedalyahu

A protester who shouted “Jews aren’t safe – we’re coming to get you“ got a big surprise. Aliyah? Perish the thought.

Jewish / News Briefs / Turkey

Well-known Turkish Jewish Couple Found Murdered

By JTA

Police entered the apartment after relatives were unable to contact the couple.

Terrorism / US / Antisemitism / News Briefs / Boycott / BDS / Business and Economy

#BlockTheBoat Fails to Stop ZIM Unloading in Tacoma

By Shalom Bear

BDS is attempting a new form of economic terrorism, except that it hurts American workers, and not Israel. American workers don't like that.

Haredim & Hassidim / News Briefs / Canada

Lev Tahor Cult Quietly Leaves Canada

By Tzvi Ben-Gedalyahu

The sect moved from Quebec to Ontario and now is scattered in the US and Israel but mostly in Guatemala.

News Briefs / Religious & Secular in Israel / Israeli Arabs / Assimilation

Israelis Fiercely Oppose Inter-Marriage

By JTA

If you are worried about your child marrying a non-Jew, and you should be, then move to Israel.

Antisemitism / News Briefs / On Campus / Education

Pro-'Palestine' Students at Temple U Blame Victim for Altercation

By Lori Lowenthal Marcus

Temple University's SJP claims the pro-Israel Jewish student harassed and provoked them into assaulting him.

Antisemitism / News Briefs / Australia, New Zealand and Oceania

Bomb Scare Forces Evacuation of Australian Jewish School

By JTA

If “the only thing we have to fear is fear itself,” Diaspora Jews are in big trouble.

NY / Eye on "Palestine" / Antisemitism / News Briefs / Local

PA Flag Hung From Brooklyn Bridge

By Jewish Press News Desk

Pro-Hamas activists hung a 200 foot PA flag from the Brooklyn Bridge.

Israel / US / Antisemitism / News Briefs

ZIM Piraeus Successfully Unloads, Moves On to Next Port of Call #BlockTheBoat = #EpicFail

By Shalom Bear

The ZIM ship was quickly and efficiently unloaded - despite the best efforts by the Jihadi supporters to block it.

Israel / US / Antisemitism / News Briefs / Business and Economy

Breaking News: #BlocktheBoat #EpicFail as ZIM Unloads

By Tzvi Ben-Gedalyahu

Longshoremen pulled a fast on anti-Israel picketers and are unloading the Zim ship that was blocked from unloading last week.

Terrorism / Jewish / US / News Briefs

Al Qaeda Threatens US to Free Terrorists or Warren Weinstein Will Die

By JTA

Al Qaeda wants the US to free terrorists in return for freeing Warren Weinstein.

Terrorism / IDF & Security / Gaza / Hamas / News Briefs / Religion / Judaism / Israel At War: Operation Protective Edge

Three War Miracles that Never Happened

By Tzvi Ben-Gedalyahu

People who made up stories about great miracles in the war lack the faith to see the everyday hidden miracles.

Jewish / US / News Briefs / Business and Economy

George Soros Betting Big Time On US Stocks Crashing

By Tibbi Singer

Soros is basically about short selling, betting on the market to take a dive.

Jewish / News Briefs / Business and Economy

Max Levchin Looking To Repeat Paypal Success With Affirm

By Tibbi Singer

PayPal co-founder Max Levchin netted a reported $34 million when his brainchild was sold to eBay in 2002 for $1.5 billion. Ever since that day, the sometimes weird whiz kid Levchin, now 39, has been trying to do it again.

Israel / Antisemitism / News Briefs / Australia, New Zealand and Oceania

7 Arrested for Storming Elbit’s Australia HQ

By JTA

Police in Melbourne arrested seven pro-Palestinian protesters who stormed the roof of an Israel-based company.

Terrorism / Israel / Antisemitism / News Briefs / Religion / Africa

South African Leader Incites for Death to Jews

By Tzvi Ben-Gedalyahu

He didn’t say “kill the Jews.” He simply invoked the Bible to call for “eye-for-an-eye” revenge on Jews for “killings in Gaza.”

Antisemitism / News Briefs / Europe

Swiss Jew Wounded in Hate Crime

By JTA

Violent assaults on Jews are becoming more common around the world.

Terrorism / Israel / Global / Antisemitism / News Briefs

Dutch Justice Ministry Employee: ISIS a Zionist Conspiracy

By Tzvi Ben-Gedalyahu

Every day is Halloween in the world of anti-Zionists, who take up the role of Satan.

Jewish / News Briefs / Arts and Entertainment

Lauren Bacall, First Cousin to Shimon Peres, Dead at 89

By Lori Lowenthal Marcus

Lauren Bacall, first cousin to Shimon Peres, dies peacefully at 89.

Antisemitism / News Briefs / France

French Official of 'Death to Jews’ Town: No One Means Harm to Jews

By JTA

There is nothing like a quaint tradition of pogroms to insist that hate language is not harmful.

Israel / Jewish / Gaza / Hamas / Global / News Briefs

South African Jew’s Anti-Israel Facebook Post Stirs Outrage

By JTA

Freedom of speech does not demand that one has to prove the freedom to show one’s ignorance.

Jewish / News Briefs / Jerusalem / The Temple Mount / Archaeology

Israel Researchers Discover Some of Western Wall Stones Wearing Away

By Jewish Press Staff

One advantage of erosion of stones at the Kotel is more cracks for people to place prayer notes.

Israel / Antisemitism / News Briefs / Media

Facebook Decides Pro-Israel Satire Offensive, Anti-Israel Hate OK

By Jewish Press News Desk

PreOccupied Territory administrators attempted to access the Facebook page today only to find a notice that the page had been “temporarily unpublished” for “controversial humor.”

Haredim & Hassidim / Antisemitism / News Briefs / Florida

Funeral Held in Miami for Murdered Rabbi

By JTA

Rabbi Raksin’s funeral was in North Miami Beach , and he will be buried in New York on Mnday.

IDF & Security / Jewish / US / News Briefs / Aliyah / Geulah

One-Third of Plane of ‘Olim’ to Enlist in IDF

By Tzvi Ben-Gedalyahu

The good news is that 338 more American Jews are moving to Israel. The and news is that 5 million are not.

Haredim & Hassidim / News Briefs / Judaism

Son of R. Ovadia Yosef, zt'l, Faces Probe in Holon

By Jewish Press News Desk

The son of late Shas spiritual leader Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, Rabbi Avraham Yosef, is under investigation.

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